A dictionary of the . al. Jehoiakim Zebudah. Jehoiachin Nehushta. Zedekiah Hamutal. 718 .Maachah or Michaiah. QUEEN OF HEAVEN, the title of the goddess of the Moon amongthe Assyrians, from whom her wor-ship spread into Asia Minor. To theShemites she was generally knownunder the names of Astarte, Ash-taroth, etc. Cakes having the imageof the moon stamped on them are sup-posed to have been presented in sacri-fice as a part of her worship. Jer. 7 :18; 44 : 17, 18, 19, 25. QUICK/SANDS are referred toin Acts 27 : 17, and were known asthe Greater Syrtis and the LesserSyrtis, two sandy gulfs
A dictionary of the . al. Jehoiakim Zebudah. Jehoiachin Nehushta. Zedekiah Hamutal. 718 .Maachah or Michaiah. QUEEN OF HEAVEN, the title of the goddess of the Moon amongthe Assyrians, from whom her wor-ship spread into Asia Minor. To theShemites she was generally knownunder the names of Astarte, Ash-taroth, etc. Cakes having the imageof the moon stamped on them are sup-posed to have been presented in sacri-fice as a part of her worship. Jer. 7 :18; 44 : 17, 18, 19, 25. QUICK/SANDS are referred toin Acts 27 : 17, and were known asthe Greater Syrtis and the LesserSyrtis, two sandy gulfs on the north-ern coast of Africa. The Greater Syrtiswas near Cyrene, and is the quick-sands probably intended in the nar-rative of Pauls voyage. QUIRINIUS. See is used in 1 Sam. 4 : 9 and 1Cor. 16 : 13 in the sense of acquit. •QUIVER, the box or case for ar-rows. Gen. 27 : 3. The word is oftenused figuratively. Isa. 49 : 2 ; Lam. 3 :13. In Jer. 5 : 16 the slaughter and des-olation which should be brought upon. Egyptian Quivers with Bows. the Israelites by the invasion of theChaldaeans is expressed by the callingtheir quivers an open sepulchre, ortheir arrows certain death. See from the 0. T. inthe N. T. are very numerous, but varyboth with respect to the method of quot-ing and with respect to the applicationof the words quoted. The Greek trans-lation, the Septuagint, is generally used, QUO QUO and how widely diffused and how closelyfollowed this version was among the Jewsof the time of our Lord may be seenfrom the circumstances that, in cases inwhich no fault of meaning is involved,even its incorrectnesses are retained inthe quotations such as Matt. 15 : 9 ; Luke4:18; Acts 13 : 41; 15 : 7-10 ; Rom. 15 :Id, etc.; in Heb. 1 : 6 is found a quota-tion from Deut. 32 : 43 which is an inter-polation of the Septuagint. In cases,however, in which the errors of the ver-sion involve a discrepancy of meaning,the N. T. writers invariably correct theSeptuagi
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